"It made me kind of take a step back and realize the party is either severely inept or disconnected from their voters, or, more obviously — they don't want to back progressive policies because they're beholden to special interests who are hurt by those." In the DSA, Burton says she found a group "actually committed to shifting power from capital to people." "It was just kind of that simple ideology that is so difficult to land with Democrats, that really clicked with me," she says.